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Tokyo.: Mainichi Newspapers / Japan International art promotion association., 1970. 2 volumes, one in photographic wrappers, the other in black wrappers. Presented in original cardboard slipcase. Mild browning to spine, otherwise a very good copy.. (23.5 x 25 cm).. pp. (144; 52). Numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. The two-volume exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the show ‘10th Tokyo Biennale’. Titled ‘Between Man and Matter’, the 10th Tokyo Biennale opened in May 1970 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and subsequently travelled to Kyoto, Nagoya and Fukuoka. The art critic Yusuke Nakahara, who was appointed General Commissioner for the exhibition, aimed to distinguish it from both the Venice and São Paulo biennial models by abolishing prizes and national representations. In order to represent the increasing diversity of artistic approaches that had developed beyond the traditional categories of painting and sculpture in the 1960s, Nakahara selected forty… Read More